Is The Threat Of A Nuclear Strike One Of The Reasons Why Osama Bin Laden Has Not Been Captured?

The Guantánamo Bay files contain new claims about Osama bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora, which is regarded as one of the early key lapses by foreign forces in the Afghan war. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Why Was Osama Bin Laden Not Captured? -- IBTimes

Wikileaks has unravelled some of the documents which reveal the truth behind inaction than action by the United States in Afghanistan in the last one decade.

It was long wished that the U.S. army would one day nail down the most wanted terrorist Osama bin-Laden and bring him to Guantanamo Bay detention center. But the latest string of leaks reveal that al Qaeda had warned to set off a “nuclear hellstorm” if Osama bin Laden is ever captured or killed.

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More News On Al Qaeda Threatening To Use Nuclear Weapons if Osama Bin Laden is Captured or Killed

9/11 Plotter Warned of "Nuclear Hellstorm" -- Global Security Newswire
'Nuclear hellstorm' if bin Laden caught: 9/11 mastermind -- AFP
Wikileaks: Al-Qaeda plotted chemical and nuclear attack on the West -- The Telegraph
‘Nuclear Hell’ If Bin Laden Dies -- Express.co.uk
Qaeda hiding nuclear bomb? -- Al Arabiya
WikiLeaks: Al-Qaida Already Has Nuclear Capacity -- Newsmax

My Comment: I doubt that Al Qaeda has access to nuclear weapons. The reason for my analysis .... if Al Qaeda had nuclear weapons, they would have used them a long time ago. As for Osama Bin Laden .... he does not strike me as a person who would want to keep nuclear weapons on the side even if it is to protect his own skin. He wants to be a martyr, and will have used them ASAP once he had possession of them .... even if he only had one bomb.